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Blue Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across York, updated every 15 minutes.

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
RawcliffeRawcliffe0.13 m 47m agoNormal—

Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Blue Beck above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.

No gauged tributary joins Blue Beck above Rawcliffe on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Blue Beck goes

Below Rawcliffe, its water next reaches Viking Recorder, a gauge on River Ouse, 3.1 km by river downstream.

Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Storm overflows upstream

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Rawcliffe on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow.

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of Blue Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Shipton Road Sewage Pumping Station Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Blue Beck, Tributary Of Ouse · 500 m from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 5 spills, 21 h
  • Lower Poppleton Lane SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Unnamed Trib Of River Ouse · 1.1 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 23 spills, 67 h
  • Plantation Drive CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ing Cliffs Drain · 1.3 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 58 spills, 143 h
  • Millfield Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib River Ouse · 1.3 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 29 spills, 63 h
  • Fairfield Sewage Pumping Station No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into Unknown Beck · 2.1 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 2 spills, 25 h
  • Brecksfield No 2 CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Burtree Dam · 2.5 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 6 spills, 20 h
  • Wigginton Road SSO No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into River Foss · 2.6 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 9 spills, 23 h
  • Milner Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Culverted Trib Holgate Beck · 2.6 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 13 spills, 5.5 h
  • Acomb CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Not Matched In Ea Consents Database · 2.7 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 17 spills, 4.8 h
  • Severus Street SSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Holgate Beck · 2.7 km from Rawcliffe in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 7 spills, 3.0 h

20 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Blue Beck’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.

A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Yorkshire Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Water samples

Dated samples taken by the Environment Agency, not live readings. Results are published days to months after the sample is taken, and many points are sampled only a few times a year, or have not been sampled for years.

No Environment Agency sampling point is placed on the Blue Beck or the streams above its lowest gauge on the mapped rivers. That is not the same as none: the river map leaves out many small streams.

Distances are along the river to the gauge named. England's samples only.

FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.